Charles Benfield was the main informant for the Bledington tunes, most of which were noted by Cecil Sharp at Benfield’s house at Bould (Oxon), a hamlet about a mile from Bledington (Glos).
William Hathaway’s version of Maid of the Mill also had a flattened 7th note, except in bar 8.

Maid of the Mill was one of several tunes used for the Bledington sidestep dance. The first 4 bars of the B music (second half of the tune) are taken up with a long sidestep, followed by a half hey [half figure of 8].